Hi lightning devs,
After some communication confusion, I won't be going to african bitcoin
confs in december and so no opportunity on my side to get logistical
experience for a future LN summit 2024 in Africa.
I'm still committed to organizing the LN Summit in June 2024, I'm proposing
to move it
Hi Peter,
> It's an high-violence Islamic country where much of the population has
> fundamentalist beliefs, and it does not have a significant tourism
industry.
> Visiting as a solo female is a sketchy thing to do.
Oran and Algier good districts are deemed safe for tourism by US travel
advisory
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 12:02:39AM +0100, Antoine Riard wrote:
> As a backup plan, I think we could consider countries like Morocco or
> Algeria, which given current composition of the organization committee is
> straightforward due to the french-speaking communities, or South Africa,
> which is
Hi Matt,
I think you're blurring two things, the additional medical risk/vaccination
due to the geographical area selected and the health coverage from the
employer / insurer of your country or origin.
The first one is more a matter of careful country selection, I've never
had to do vaccinations
Sadly, the african continent doesn't only come with additional travel time and visa effort. It also
generally carries additional medical risk/vaccination schedules depending on your
employer/insurer/country of origin.
I don't think I'll be attending any developer meetings on the continent,
Hi Matt,
I fully understand the concern about the additional requirements for
travel, which isn't well-served by direct international flights and be
conservative with people's time.
Though there are few observations, I still think doing a summit on the
africa continent will take less accumulated
While more lightning developers attending conference(s) in a more diverse set of countries,
including on the african continent, sounds like a great idea, the usual LN summit is an invite-only
developer meeting. Hosting it in a country with additional requirements for travel and which isn't
as
Hi lightning devs,
Follow up on next year LN Summit organization:
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-June/003994.html
After browsing the travel advisories, social situations of a good number of
geographical areas in Africa, and chatting with the Built with Bitcoin
I've been thinking about this Antoine, great idea!
I will reach out.
Cheers,
Bernard
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 1:27 PM Antoine Riard
wrote:
> Hi lightning devs,
>
> Proposing myself to organize next year's LN Summit in Africa, with a rough
> date somewhere in June 2024.
>
> There are a lot of
